Alex Hutton

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Hi. This is my personal weblog. I also write at:

http://www.newschoolsecurity.com
http://securityblog.verizonbusiness.com

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    » CLOUD COMPUTING - STORMY WEATHER?

    Lots being written about the Cloud, most of it quite dark and gloomy.  In fact I’m surprised, that Hoff hasn’t got a preso spooled up called “The Toxic Cloud” or something…



    October 27, 2008, 12:29pm  Comments

    » A Cryptographer and a Data Communications Guy Talk About Risk Management

    Sounds like the beginning of a joke, right?  So these two guys walk into a bar…

    “The” Bruce Schneier and Marcus Ranum have an article up on TechTarget/Information Security Magazine called,…



    October 16, 2008, 11:56am  Comments

    » Gartner’s worst case for 2009 IT budgets isn’t so bad | Between the Lines | ZDNet.com



    October 14, 2008, 12:13pm  Comments

    » AESRM - Projects and Publications



    October 14, 2008, 12:13pm  Comments

    » Our Blog Got High Ratings!

    Tooting our own horn on Monday morning, the excellent Thinking Problem Management blog gave us their coveted “5 pineapple” rating!

    In your face, RISKS Digest! ;)



    October 13, 2008, 11:37am  Comments

    » Why Risk Management Doesn’t Work (?!)

    Several folks (Hi Daniel, Brent, David!) sent email & twitters asking us our opinion on a Dark Reading article called “Why Risk Management Doesn’t Work” which if you click on the link should…



    October 08, 2008, 3:07pm  Comments

    » Around The Web For Friday

    We’re frequently asked what we’re reading and what we like in blog posts, so here are some interesting things that hit our RSS readers that you may have missed:

    COBIT rivals ITIL from The IT…



    September 26, 2008, 10:27am  Comments

    » One Man’s Frustrations With “Risk Management”

    Chris, who is a male in Government C&A has a blog with a wonderful title: How is that Assurance Evidence?

    I’d love to have another blog even more specific - “Ok, that Assurance is Evidence Of…



    September 23, 2008, 3:11pm  Comments

    » So Logically, If She Weighs The Same As A Duck…She’s A Witch!

    I usually try to stay far away from politics and current events, but my friend Rich has put up a blog post blaming the credit crisis on quantitative analysis, and then positing that because the…



    September 18, 2008, 11:02am  Comments

    » Hansei and the CISO

    Continuing our series on Hansei-Kaizen, you’ll recall that my thoughts are about applying the concept of relentless reflection (Hansei) and continuous improvement (Kaizen) to security management. …



    September 16, 2008, 1:52pm  Comments